TY - GEN N2 - That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. This volume examines the body-political imagery used by Roman orators and authors of the first century BCE to express this notion, with particular emphasis on such imagery as a tool of persuasion and the impact which it exerted on Roman politics of the period. AB - That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. This volume examines the body-political imagery used by Roman orators and authors of the first century BCE to express this notion, with particular emphasis on such imagery as a tool of persuasion and the impact which it exerted on Roman politics of the period. T1 - The deaths of the republic :imagery of the body politic in Ciceronian Rome / AU - Walters, Brian ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PA6029 ID - 925451 KW - Latin literature KW - Human body in literature. KW - Politics in literature. KW - Death in literature. KW - Diseases in literature. KW - Latin language SN - 9780191875458 TI - The deaths of the republic :imagery of the body politic in Ciceronian Rome / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198839576.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198839576.001.0001 ER -